Sunday, February 10, 2013

Amitgonpontook

Amitgonpontook

middle of the mighty Androscoggin

January 2013

"I, Perepol, of lawful
age testify and say that the Indian name of the river was Pejepscook
from Quabacook, what is now called Merrymeeting Bay, up as far
as Amitgonpontook, what the English call Harrises falls, and
all the river from Harrises falls up was called Ammoscongon and
the largest falls on the river was above Rockamecook about twelve
miles, and those falls have got three pitches, and there is no
other falls on the river like them and the Indians used to catch
the most Salmon at the foot of them falls, and the Indians used
to say when they went down the river from Rockamecook and when
they got down over the falls by Harrises they say now come Pejepscook."